Tragedy Quotes
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And she felt like they, the two of them, right here, right now, could make something that defied tragedy.
Charlie Jane Anders
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There's comedy in tragedy, and tragedy in comedy. There's always light and dark in most jobs. Whether it's framed as a comedy, drama or tragedy, you try to mix it up within that. You can work on a comedy and it's not laugh-a-minute off set. You can work on a tragedy that's absolutely hilarious.
Harry Treadaway
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When I look up, I see people cashing in. I don't see heaven or saints or angels. I see people cashing in on every decent impulse and every human tragedy.
Joseph Heller
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It was the tragedy of women to be lusted after and stolen in the night.
Conn Iggulden
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Australians are not given to applauding tragedy unless it is at a distance like Gallipoli or Cooper's Creek, and they prefer pure heroism to be spiced with disaster, except of course in sport. It was all very well for Adam Lindsay Gordon to have shot himself, but it would never have done for Don Bradman.
Geoffrey Dutton
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Why do we wait for tragedy to strike to tell someone how special they are, or how special they were?
Juhi Chawla
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The past in retrospect holds manifold disenchantments, failures and even tragedies; and yet the worse may be forgotten and the best held fast.
William Robertson Nicoll
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Some people have accused my tragedy of being too sad, as though one desired a merry tragedy. People clamor for Enjoyment as though Enjoyment consisted in being foolish. I find enjoyment in the powerful and terrible struggles of life; and the capability of experiencing something, of learning something, gives me pleasure.
August Strindberg
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Seeing your work go into storage in an art museum is obviously a tragedy of any cultural product - which doesn't mean I am anti-institutional.
Aleksandra Mir
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Tragedy was foresworn, in ritual denial of the ripe knowledge that we are drawing away from one another, that we share only one thing, share the fear of belonging to another, or to others, or to God; love or money, tender equated in advertising and the world, where only money is currency, and under dead trees and brittle ornaments prehensile hands exchange forgeries of what the heart dare not surrender.
William Gaddis
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That's the tragedy of the rich: They don't need anything.
Charles Coburn
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The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we begin it so late.
William Mather Lewis
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In the midst of the sense of tragedy or loss, sometimes laughter is not only healing, it's a way of experiencing the person that you've lost again.
Alan Alda
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The tragedy, ... is that this woman needs something, and has expectations, that cannot be fully realized. And to keep herself in such an unforgiving environment, she goes back and forth between being really strong, and stupid about what her priorities are.
Lisa Kudrow
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The tragedy is that, as modern viewers, we've completely lost touch with what it physically takes to wage a war.
Dario Robleto
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I can't imagine anything that would signal more clearly that life goes on and joy can follow tragedy than your having a much wanted child.
Emily Yoffe
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I shall struggle against the decline of body and brain and heart so long as a shadow of force is left me, so long as they leave me a spark of life. I must see the end of this dark tragedy.
Alfred Dreyfus
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Man's worst tragedy in life is his failure to reach his greatest potential.
Ed Palubinskas
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In their efforts to provide a sufficiency of water where there was not one, men have resorted to every expedient from prayer to dynamite. The story of their efforts is, on the whole, one of pathos and tragedy, of a few successes and many failures
Walter Prescott Webb
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The chilling truth is that his story could have been mine. The tragedy is that my story could have been his.
Wes Moore
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It made me have a much greater understanding of loss, of loneliness, and the level of intense tragedy that so many people have experienced in this world, I take a lot less for granted.
Adrien Brody
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In every life, no matter how full or empty ones purse, there is tragedy. It is the one promise life always fulfills. Thus, happiness is a gift, and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes, and to add to other peoples store of it.
Charles Dickens
